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shorter than the bluntish and not much apreading lobes; anthers 

 fuUy half as long as the filaments, many times longer than broad; 

 ovary brownish-silky ; capsules not large, rather turgid, almost globular 

 or somewhat depressed, velvet-hairy ; valves two, hard; fumicles thick 

 and very short; seeds several, from garnet-color turning brown-black 

 somewhat viscid. 



On high rocky ranges near Rockingham-Bay. 



From Bentham's brief description in the „Flora Australiensis* I, 

 112, I was led to assume, that this was P. rubiginosum; accordingly 

 I described it as such in the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. VI, 167, the fruits 

 of Cunningham's plant then not being known. But having since 

 obtained an authentic leaf-specimen of P. rubiginosum from the great 

 Kew-establishment, I find identical with it specimens gathered on the 

 Daintree-River (W.Hill), Trinity-Bay (Fitzalan) and Johnston-River 

 (B e r t h a u d) , and thus am able now from good material to point out, that 

 P. rubiginosum differs from the species, above recorded anew, in generally 

 larger, more verticilate-crowded leaves of thinner quite papery texture with 

 but scanty indument, in often conspicuously pedunculate and not rarely 

 thyrsoid inflorescence , in scattered-hairy sepals, in petals about three 

 times as long as the calyx, cohering for about twothirds of their length 

 into an almost cylindric tube and being pointed at the much-recurved 

 summit, in filaments more than twice as long as the anthers, in larger 

 almost ovate-cordate fruits , longer than broad , broader towards the 

 base than towards the somewhat acute summit , of deep yellow color, 

 in thinner valves connate towards the base and only sparsely hairy 

 outside, in a sudden short narrow basal constriction of the fruit, also 

 in generally more numerous and more viscid seeds, not verging into a 

 renate form. The comparison of the flowers of P. rubiginosum was 

 rather misleading , as they are considerably larger and much less 

 numerous ; the petals are white even when dry, while those of P. Wingii 

 are dark-colored in that state, and may therefore fresh be of a diffe- 

 rent color. 



P. Wingii in some respects approaches also P. revolutum. 



This dedication of the now re-described Pittosporum is to the gent- 

 leman, who by the issue of the „Southern Science-Record" under great 

 sacrifices and with indomitable energy has much contributed in late 

 years here locally to the advancement of natural history, both zoolo- 

 gical and botanical.J 



Müller, Ferdinand Baron yon, Succinct Notes on some Plants from New 

 Guinea. (Extra-print from the Victorian Naturalist. February 1885.) 



[Before resuming the issue of the publication on „Papuan Plants", 

 the writer wishes to ofFer a few preliminary remarks on various botanic 

 sendings , obtained within the last months from that great Island. 

 Among the plants, thus received, are leafy branchlets and acorns of 

 an Oak , gathered in Gemenoma-valley of Astrolabe-Range fat about 

 2000 feet elevation) by Mr. E. G. Edelf elt, an emissary of Thomas 

 Gulliver, Esq. , F. L. S. , of Townsville , who made large monetary 

 sacrifices, to obtain thus some new scientific material from New Guinea. 

 The tree , from which the specimens were taken , was about 80 feet 

 high, with a trunk branchless up to 40 feet and with greyish bark; 

 the leaves resemble much those of Quercus pallida, but the scales of 

 the involucre are less prominent and less pointed , and the nuts are 

 not so broad and exceed the involucre considerably in length; the 

 leaves are also very similar to those of Quercus Korthalsii ; and from 

 A. de Candolle's description (prodr. XVI. part II, 89) the acorns of 

 that Oak seem also very much like those of the Papuan tree, the seed 

 (to judge from decayed remnants) being likewise much lobed. I regard 

 this Oak referable to Quercus Dalbertisii, indicadet in the „Victorian 

 Naturalist", Dec. 1884, and alludet to in the „Papuan Plants" p. 83 

 (1877.) The proportionate length of the involucre and nut is evidently 

 subject to considerable Variation, Flowers were not available or not 



